Keep Memory Alive by AUTUMN JEPP

Elie Weisel Today

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Biography

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Born on September 30, Elie Wiesel was introduced into the world of Sighet, Transylvania (present-day Romania) during the late 1920’s. He partook in understanding religious studies in which his family had influenced him. At age fifteen, he and his family were forced to become a part of the Holocaust, and relocated to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. Being one of the three survivors of his family, he decided to move on and became a writer, international activist, and orator.

Young Elie Weisel

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Overview of Night

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Bombarded by German soldiers, Eliezer's jewish family was upheaved from Sighet, Transylvania, to a concentration camp in Auschwitz, along with the entire jewish population. There, he was cut out of contact from his mother and sister, but successfully continued to stay near his father. He starved, was forced to deal with agonizing pain, but managed to stay alive by the amount of faith that he put into God’s hands. His father progressively got weaker, and the fight for survival was tough. Thus, creating a conflict with Eliezer. Just a few months before the Holocaust ended, Eliezer’s father had passed, leaving Eliezer alive to tell his story all over the world.

The Meaning Behind "Keep Memory Alive"

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When memories wane, its possible they can be forgotten. When they are forgotten, it’s hard to remember anything that ever once did. If we forget, the history can repeat itself; and that could be a very bad thing.

Rhetorical Devices

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Repetition~ words or phrases repeated throughout the text to emphasize certain facts or ideas.

ex #1: “I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."

ex #2: "I remember: he asked his father: “Can this be true? This is the 20th century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?” Parallelism~ Similar clauses or sentences that are structured.|ex: "Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." Slogans and Saws~ A phrase expressing nature of an enterprise, organization, or candidate; a motto.|ex: “Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.” Rhetorical Questions~ When the author asks a question seeking an obvious answer.|ex:” It frightens me because I wonder: do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not.”

Night by Elie Wiesel

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The Ghettos

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The Ghettos during WWII were a series of separation, filing the Jews to live in a different community away from everyone else. The entire neighborhood was wrapped around in barbed wire, trapping them. Numerous families lived in vacant homes were filled past capacity; throwing waste and trash out on to the front yard and streets. Countless people became infected with disease and illness from all the filth and germs spreading closely around them. The Germans made sure they got their pleasure out of torturing the Jews by only allowing them to receive microscopic amounts of potatoes, bread, and butter. Some residents traded their priceless belongings for food. The others survived by stealing and pleading to others. There was a shortage of warm clothes, and people even died from the cold. Some killed themselves as an escape of their brutal reality.

Overview of the Holocaust

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Holocaust~ destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

The reign of the Holocaust lasted from 1933 to 1945, initiated by Adolf Hitler. In his mindset, he looked at Jews as creatures who were interfering on living in a literal “Perfect World.” Thus, he wanted to kill each and every single, individual Jew. Over six million Jews were sent on a vacation to concentration camps. There, they would be used as slaves, starved, beaten, and to top it all off, be stripped down nude and being murdered inside of a gas chamber with a monumental amount of other people.

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following holocaust photo:

Concentration Camp Overview

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Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp near Hanover in northwest Germany. Built in 1940, it was a prisoner-of-war camp for French and Belgian prisoners. In 1941, it was renamed in northwest Germany. Bergen-Belsen was converted into a concentration camp in 1943. Jews with foreign passports were kept there to be exchanged for German nationalists imprisoned abroad, although very few exchanges were made. The camp was divided into eight sections, a detention camp, two women’s camps, a special camp, neutrals camps, “star” camp (mainly Dutch prisoners who wore a Star of David of their clothing instead of the cam uniform), Hungarian camp and a tent camp. It was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners, however, by the war’s end more than 60,000 prisoners were detained there, due to the large numbers of those evacuated from Auschwitz and other camps from the East. Tens of thousands of prisoners from other camps came to Bergen-Belsen after agonizing death marches.

Nazi Party Summary

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From 1920 to 1945, Adolf Hitler played a major role in creating the Nazi Party, also recognized as the National Socialist German Worker’s Party. He killed himself for what he had done.

Nazi Party #

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Nazi Party #2

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Adolf Hitler

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From 1899 to 1945, Adolf Hitler played Commander-in-Chief of German armed forces.

Hermann Goering

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As one of the most powerful people in Germany, he reigned from 1893 to 1946. He was also Chief of the Luffwaffe.

Winston Churchill

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From 1874 to 1965, he was the First American Lord of the Admiralty in Chamberlain's government, then Prime Minister, then Minister of Defense.

Field Marshal John Dill

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He became Head of the British Joint Staff Mission during 1991 through 1944 in Washington.

Works Cited

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